I have been delinquent in my blogging this past week. For that I apologize, it is not that I don’t have a ton of stuff that I want to share, it’s just that I have been putting off blogging to focus on some business related items like: tidying up our executive summary, putting together a better looking presentation and improving my financial projections. I also traveled to Chicago to see my parents, watch the Cubs and Bears and to meet with a VC friend of the family.

Here are a few entries that I hope to complete this week:

• Are you surprised? Clarence is Already There
• Organize through networks, not Hierarchy
• Signal vs Noise in Teaching

Lately I have learned a ton reading Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade, am looking forward to the Okkervil River show on Friday and enjoyed way too many combos, italian beefs and hot dogs while in Chicago (Go Cubs!!)

Finally, I read something over at Bokardo that reinforced my ambition to improve the visualizing of information and process at PlansForUs. This quote in particular caught my attention:

…show people images or sequences that represent ideas. I’m constantly advocating for a “How it works” section on web applications. Is it because the thing is complicated or there are too many steps to understand? No, not usually. Given enough time most folks can figure out anything. But as a rule we just don’t have time. What visuals do is take abstract thoughts (the words we use to describe the app) and make them concrete in a visualization…instantly.

Given the constraints on teacher’s time, we need to nail the visual presentation at PlansForUs.

In conclusion, if any of you are going to the Okkervil River show at Webster Hall, just tap me on the shoulder and let me know how we can improve PlansForUs. I look identical to my Meez, tall, glasses and shock of blond hair and I would love to hear your thoughts.

by Tyler, CEO